Research on the Opportunities of 5G Technologies in transforming the Access and Quality of Healthcare Systems

Abstract

Today’s healthcare system faces serious challenges and inefficiencies despite numerous efforts to ameliorate the problems. Fortunately, technologies emerged as efficient solutions in driving the progress of improving the system, and much attention and hope have been given to the newest generation of networks—5G. This is attributed to the fact that the healthcare industry explored and implemented many use cases, but extensive implementations were hampered by the deficiencies of existing technologies. This paper summarizes the potential of 5G in transforming the healthcare system through the use of secondary data. By presenting two specific use cases under the current 4G network and the future 5G network, virtual consultation, and remote patient monitoring, it concludes that 5G has more potential to resolve the challenges by offering some unique features that are particularly beneficial to healthcare, such as high-speed data transfer rate, ultra-low latency, high bandwidth, better connectivity and capacity. The significance of this paper is that, under the COVID-19 pandemic, use cases that are delivered remotely are of urgent attention for the healthcare industry to develop. 5G offers immense improvements to the existing solutions in the 4G framework, including healthcare delivery convenience, medical resource optimization, and patient value growth.